From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030311 Galeon/1.3.3 Description of problem: Intalling on hdd1=/ and hdd11=/usr with a pqmagic-3 bootloader (os2 bootloader) being already in the system. Therefore selecting bootloader option during install of "lilo" to be installed in "hdd1" (the root partition above). Packages installs fine but final step of setting lilo does crash with a python exception - the resulting anacdump.txt is appended. It seems the "hdd" was not registered correctly (the biosRemap member py variable does not exist at all??). ... additional information ... (2) I'm defecting from mandrake9 where the installer had a problem with the unused-partition on hda, therefore I am appending fdisk-lists as well. (3) There are two harddisk hda and hdd and two cd drives hdb and hdc, installation is run via bios boot from shrike iso cds in hdb. (4) The crash was on a second attempt to install, during first try I did not notice "extended options" on bootloader selection screen and the system had no bootloader at all (even that the installation did succeed), and a manual setup of lilo.conf failed. - A second try with the same options does fail like seen above - it's a non-upgrade installation then with all options identical but just the lilo bootloader selected additionally. (5) I'm CS engineer with 8 years experience with linux on my home box (slackware, suse, mandrake) and various opensource projects around (google for "guidod" to see). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: installation with lilo on root partition on secondary harddisk. Additional info:
Created attachment 91038 [details] anacdump as filed on fd0 with py state
Created attachment 91039 [details] partitions.list $ LC_MESSAGES=C ; (sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda ; sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdd ; cat /proc/partitions) >partitions.list
Can you attach your lilo.conf?
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